PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Newton, Helen
AU  - Helton, Margaret
AU  - Fraher, Erin
TI  - Family Medicine’s Role in Generating Evidence to Inform Primary Care Payment Reform and New Care Delivery Models
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2024.240009R1
DP  - 2024 Nov 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - S164--S172
VI  - 37
IP  - Supplement2
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/37/Supplement2/S164.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/37/Supplement2/S164.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2024 Nov 01; 37
AB  - Given that half of physician office visits are for primary care and family physicians make up 40% of all primary care clinicians in the US, family medicine researchers can play a key role in evaluating and reporting on state and federal innovations to redesign primary care payment and care delivery. We used Dimensions, a comprehensive publications and citations research platform, to measure the impact of family medicine-affiliated scholarship (research articles, letters to the editor, research letters, and editorials) published from 2018 to 2022 in 14 of the highest-impact journals that routinely publish articles on payment and delivery system reform. Among 6212 peer-reviewed articles related to primary care payment and delivery system reform, we found that 519 (8.4%) included at least 1 author with an affiliation with a department of family medicine compared with 1197 articles (19.3%) that had at least 1 author with an affiliation with a department of internal medicine and 504 articles (8.1%) that had at least 1 author affiliated with a department of pediatrics. Taken together, these findings suggest that academic departments of family medicine are lagging in scholarly contributions that evaluate payment and delivery system reform.